The most numerous ganglion cell type of the mouse retina is a selective feature detector

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 36, 2012, Pages E2391-E2398

  Zhang, Yifeng ^a,b   Kim, In Jung ^a,c   Sanes, Joshua R ^a   Meister, Markus ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density recovery profile; Electrophysiology; Neural processing; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; MOUSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84867695871     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211547109     Document Type: Article

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